See on Ayiti Now Corp PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. State Department has begun a community policing program in Haiti that aims to strengthen ties between officers and the neighbourhoods they patrol in a country where police are largely mistrusted. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: Such heavy-handed tactics were on the mind of a few students …
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A senior US official visiting Haiti called on Tuesday for greater transparency to improve the quality of education in the Caribbean country’s long-struggling classrooms. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited classrooms at the Tabarre National School in Port au Prince where the students face obstacles to getting an education. He told the Associate Press he believes …
See on Ayiti Now Corp The leaders plan to decide at a meeting Tuesday in Trinidad whether to impose sanctions against the Dominican Republic over a high court ruling denying citizenship to children of undocumented Haitians.
http://www.linktv.org/programs/special_belafonte In 2005 actor and singer Harry Belafonte founded The Gathering for Justice, an organization dedicated to helping stop the crisis of youth incarceration in the United States. Since its foundation the organization has held youth and elder gatherings across the nation and in November 2007 it conducted its first convention “The National Gathering for …
Education and the Post-2015 Development Agenda | Brookings Institution. As the 2015 expiration date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the goal of achieving universal access to primary education is unlikely to be realized. Worldwide, 61 million children still do not have access to primary school and millions more are in school but not …
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